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It's October which means it's the perfect time to carve into a new series! Our Passion Tango Iced Tea is the perfect pairing for our $5 Hot Coffee, Hot Book special. Pick up the first in the Stalking Jack the Ripper saga today! 🗡🩸

Have you heard the news? ‼️

We will be hosting a ✨midnight release party✨ for Onyx Storm, the next installment in the Empyrean series!

Spots at our party and copies of the deluxe edition are extremely limited, and so you must pre-order a copy of Onyx Storm AND call us at (518) 438-1728 in order to attend!

Meet another of our featured authors from our Mavens of Mayhem signing extravaganza happening this Sunday at 2pm!

A former teacher and business owner, Carol Pouliot holds a BA in French and Spanish and an MA in French. Carol writes the acclaimed Blackwell and Watson Time-Travel Mysteries, traditional police procedurals with a seemingly impossible relationship between Depression-era cop Steven Blackwell and 21st-century journalist Olivia Watson. Carol is a founding member of Sleuths and Sidekicks, Co-chair of the Murderous March Mystery Conference, and former President of her Sisters in Crime chapter.

We can’t wait to welcome the Mavens of Mayhem for their signing extravaganza this Sunday at 2!

Chris Keefer has been a store clerk, teacher, quasi-social worker, truck-farm vegetable picker, but always a writer. Her work includes a twenty-year run as a weekly newspaper columnist on the subject of birding, and she currently writes news of her hometown in the local paper. She has published articles in numerous magazines including Coping, Conservationist, and Kaatskill Life, a chapbook of humorous rants and she just won a drabble contest!
Her debut novel No Comfort for the Undertaker is the first of three Carrie Lisbon mysteries. Tragedy’s Twin was released in October, 2023. Look for Find Your Way to My Grave in Fall, 2024.
Chris earned three degrees in education, is a member of Sisters in Crime, SINC Guppies, Mavens of Mayhem (Upper Hudson Chapter of SINC), Historical Novel Society, and attends virtual and in-person writer’s groups each week.
Chris lives with her husband in an old country house, works in an elementary school, and writes, birds, gardens, metal-detects, bikes, and most recently got into grandmothering, in upstate New York.

It’s October and we have a new batch of Monthly Picks perfect for long autumn nights! 🍂

🌲 Fiction: North Woods by Daniel Mason

🐈 Speculative Fiction: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

🏛️ Non-Fiction: Reasons Not To Worry: How to Be Stoic In Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney

🪦 Mystery/Thriller: Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

👻 Young Readers: The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien

🌙 Young Adult: Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

Thank you to everyone who showed up for our Percy Jackson Wrath of the Triple Goddess event today!

We had so much fun celebrating our favorite demi-god with you! 🔱🌊

Come join us ✨TOMORROW✨ 9/28 at 2pm for a special Percy Jackson event in our music department as we celebrate the release of the latest book in the series!

Whether you’re new to Camp Half-Blood, or a returning camper, we’ll have activities for you!

Space is limited! Call (518) 438-1728 to sign up!

Meet our next featured author from our signing extravaganza featuring members of the Mavens of Mayhem on October 6 at 2pm!

Tina deBellegarde has been secretly writing her whole life. When she turned fifty, she decided that she no longer needed to keep it under wraps and started to write and share. As a result, her debut novel Winter Witness, the first in the Batavia-on-Hudson series, was released September 2020 by Level Best Books. The subsequent volumes of the Batavia-on-Hudson series will be released April 2022 and April 2023.

She also writes short fiction and flash fiction. Her short story “Second Chances” appears in Seascape: Best New England Crime Stories. Her flash fiction has won competitions and can be found in Palm-Sized Press, Retreat West, Ad Hoc Fiction and Reflex Press. See the links above to read or purchase.
Tina lives and writes in Catskill, New York with her husband Denis, and their cat Shelby. When she isn’t writing she is helping Denis tend their beehives, harvest shiitakes from their mushroom logs, or tend their vegetable garden. She makes lampworked glass beads and contributes to her husband’s jewelry designs. For Tina, baking and cooking are meditations that allow her to plan her writing. She travels to Kyoto, Japan regularly to visit with her son, Alessandro, who has lived there for many years running his media production company.
When she isn’t writing or tending to her hobbies, Tina works at the Catskill Public Library. She is a former middle school teacher, paralegal, and exporter.

Have you heard the news? On Sunday, October 6th at 2pm we will be hosting a signing extravaganza featuring members of the Mavens of Mayhem, the Upper Hudson chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Leading up to the event, we’ll be introducing you to the amazing authors who will be in attendance!

Libby Cudmore is the author of Negative Girl (Datura 2024) and The Big Rewind (William Morrow 2016) as well as the Wade & Jacks P.I. series in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Tough. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dark, Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Shotgun Honey, Stone’s Throw and HAD, as well as the anthologies Mixed Up, Welcome Home, Hanzai Japan, A Beast Without a Name and Lawyers, Guns & Money: Crime Fiction Inspired By the Music of Warren Zevon (co-edited with Art Taylor). She is the 2018 recipient of the Oregon Writer’s Colony prize, the 2023 Shamus award for best P.I short story, and the 2023 Black Orchid Novella award.

She is the current co-host of the OST Party and Misbehavin’ podcasts and the former co-host of The Shattered Shield podcast, and teaches short fiction through The Writer’s Circle.

Oh baby what a week for new releases!

The Thirteenth Child - - first of all, LOOK AT IT. GILDED EDGES, PEOPLE!!! Drawing on the Grimm Brothers’ dark fairytale, ‘Godfather Death,’ this new novel by the #1 NYT bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows is a sweeping, fantastical saga of actions and consequences.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Wrath of the Triple Goddess - Rick Riordan - Rick’s newest Percy adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats.

The Sun and The Star - Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro - demigods Nick di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus to rescue and old friend

Black Star - - the riveting second book in the #1 NYT bestselling Door of No Return trilogy stars Kofi’s granddaughter, Charley, who’s set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town.

Beyond the Throne - - WE DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SCENE PLEASE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH - the first memoir to share behind-the-scene stories of the perils and triumphs of Game of Thrones - from beloved performer Kristian Nairn, who played Hodor and became one of the most recognizable faces of the global television phenomenon.

Intermezzo - - an exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family.

Goldfinch - - the seductive and thrilling dark fantasy series comes to an end in this powerful finale. With sizzling romance, devastations, and triumphs, this is the epic conclusion to the gilded world if Orea that everyone has been waiting for.

Counting Miracles - - an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change - or even make our peace with - the path we’ve taken.

Are you excited for the release of the latest Percy Jackson book? 👀

Then make sure to join us and other Percy Jackson fans as we celebrate the release of Percy Jackson: Wrath of the Triple Goddess, THIS SATURDAY (9/28) at 2PM!

Space for this event is limited, so call us at (518) 438-1728 to reserve your spot!

This week on Poured Over:
Wright Thompson on The Barn
Richard Powers on Playground
Tammy Armstrong on Pearly Everlasting

Listen to these great authors and more on Poured Over — new episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays (with some Saturdays) wherever you get your podcasts!

In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
– The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien –

Happy Birthday, Bilbo & Frodo Baggins.

Join us on Monday, September 23 at 3PM ET, as we welcome USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Wrobel, in conversation with Vanessa Lillie, for a live, virtual discussion of THE HITCHCOCK HOTEL, as part of our B&N Midday Mystery Virtual Event series.

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Are you looking to start your ✨villain era✨?

Then you NEED to read Our Speculative Fiction Monthly Pick, Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan.

This debut fantasy novel has had our booksellers on a roller coaster of emotion all while pondering what they would do if they were dropped into the middle of their favorite book.

Pick it up today!

Join Barnes & Noble as we welcome Rick Riordan on September 24th @ 7 PM EST.

Rick will be joining us for a live, virtual discussion to celebrate the release of the newest Percy Jackson and the Olympians adventure, WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS.

BONUS!: Each ticket includes a copy of the B&N Exclusive Edition of WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS which features beautiful stained edges and extra content about the witches of Greek mythology. ---> PLUS, a "Camp Half-Blood" magnetic bookmark!

Here are two new nonfiction books that we love at Poured Over — both authors joined us for episodes this week.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

The Love & Murder Bookclub is back with ! Join us Monday, September 30 at 7:00!

Wordhunter - Stella Sands - An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes.

Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The top student in her forensic linguistics class, she’s tapped by local police to use her skills to decipher harrowing notes left by a stalker-turned-rapist—and succeeds brilliantly.

But when the daughter of a local mayor is abducted, Maggie isn’t sure she’s the right person to help the police solve the crime. Given what happened to her best childhood friend, Maggie just might be too close to this one.

Yet she knows the authorities in this rural south-Central Florida town cannot crack the case without her special skill. Along with her new best friend, a detective Jackson, Maggie begins to analyze the texts, emails, and verbal tics of various suspects . . . and comes to a disturbing conclusion that will rock this small community.

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1943 - 2024

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The Booker Prize shortlist is finally here, and we’re thrilled to see which authors have been recognized for their incredible works of fiction.

Edmund de Waal, Chair of the Booker Prize 2024 judges says, “This is timely and timeless fiction, in which there is much at stake. Here are books that unfold with quietness and stealth, as well as books that are incendiary . . . they are works of fiction that inhabit ideas by making us care deeply about people and their predicaments, their singularity in a world that can be indifferent or hostile.”

Take a look through this year’s shortlist on B&N Reads and stack up your .



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This week on Poured Over:
Timothy Snyder on On Freedom
Rebecca Nagle on By the Fire We Carry
Sarah Smarsh on Bone of the Bone

Listen to these great authors and more on Poured Over — new episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays (with some Saturdays) wherever you get your podcasts!

Whether you and your young’uns are excited that school is back in session or not, school is, in fact, back in session.

That means it’s time to start new grades, new classes, perhaps even new schools, and meet some new teachers and friends in the process.

What better way to prepare for the mayhem ahead than with some good stories set in the hallowed halls of one school or another?

Check out our recommendations here:

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Creamy white cheddar Kraft macaroni and cheese is $1 off all month long! 🧀

I wrote an original essay about the creative process for Barnes & Noble's Exclusive Edition of The Blue Hour, which also features stunning custom endpapers. Check it out: https://bit.ly/45Hflfe

Elizabeth Strout joins us to talk about Tell Me Everything today on Poured Over!

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Did you miss out on our event with L.J. Shen last night?

We have a limited number of ✨signed copies✨ with swag!

Stop by the store or call (518) 438-1728 to purchase your copy!

Oh, what a night! Thank you for stopping by and sharing some laughs and insight with us! We’re glad we were able to help you discover your one trigger warning.

So excited!

We are less than two weeks away from the official release of on September 24th, and I can’t wait to see you all on my book tour!

I also always love partnering with booksellers like Barnes & Noble to bring you exclusive signed and special editions of my books. If you haven’t ordered yet, make sure you get your copy while supplies last!

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Tonight’s the night! 😍

Join us tonight at 6pm in as we welcome bestselling author L.J. Shen as she discusses and signs her latest book, Truly Madly Deeply!

Swipe ➡️ to see important information about tonight’s event!

See you then!

The Names by Billy Collins

Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
Names printed on the ceiling of the night.
Names slipping around a watery bend.
Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.
In the morning, I walked out barefoot
Among thousands of flowers
Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears,
And each had a name --
Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal
Then Gonzalez and Han, Ishikawa and Jenkins.
Names written in the air
And stitched into the cloth of the day.
A name under a photograph taped to a mailbox.
Monogram on a torn shirt,
I see you spelled out on storefront windows
And on the bright unfurled awnings of this city.
I say the syllables as I turn a corner --
Kelly and Lee,
Medina, Nardella, and O'Connor.
When I peer into the woods,
I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden
As in a puzzle concocted for children.
Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash,
Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton,
Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple.
Names written in the pale sky.
Names rising in the updraft amid buildings.
Names silent in stone
Or cried out behind a door.
Names blown over the earth and out to sea.
In the evening -- weakening light, the last swallows.
A boy on a lake lifts his oars.
A woman by a window puts a match to a candle,
And the names are outlined on the rose clouds -
Vanacore and Wallace,
(let X stand, if it can, for the ones unfound)
Then Young and Ziminsky, the final jolt of Z.
Names etched on the head of a pin.
One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel.
A blue name needled into the skin.
Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers,
The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.
Alphabet of names in a green field.
Names in the small tracks of birds.
Names lifted from a hat
Or balanced on the tip of the tongue.
Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

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It’s time for New Release Tuesday!

Truly Madly Deeply - - the first standalone in a new LJ she universe. An enemies to lovers, grumpy/ sunshine romance. “This old flame just might set them on fire.”

Somewhere Beyond the Sea - TJ Klune - the hugely anticipated sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. “A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.”

Fall into Temptation - - “those stolen kisses were accidental. Few months of string-free passion couldn’t possible cause any trouble.”

Here One Moment - - “a riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime.”

Impossible Creatures - .rundell - “two kids race to save the world’s last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series, from “a writer with an utterly distinctively voice and a wild imagination.”

Join Senior Bookseller Dorothy on Thursday, October 3rd as she discusses her pick for Book of the Year, The Life Impossible by with our Literary Book Club!

Embrace the unknown in this novel of discovery by an author who knows how to make us feel less alone.